Groot Begijnhof
Walled neo-Gothic beguine town of brick houses, convents and gardens around a central church.
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This guide to the Groot Begijnhof in Ghent's Sint-Amandsberg district looks at a walled beguine town that seems medieval and is not, and at the eighteen-seventies building job behind it. It turns on Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, the architect Arthur Verhaegen, and the religious women pushed out of the old city centre. Best heard inside the walls, standing among the brick houses and their walled front gardens.
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